"Is there any more?" asked Pooh quickly.

Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't."

"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself "Well, good-bye. I must be going on."

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in the open again . . . and then his ears . . .and then his front paws . . . and then his shoulders . . . and then--

"Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."

"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."

"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"

Now, by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, and looked at him.

"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.

"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to myself." --Winnie the Pooh--Chapter 2
Pooh is expert at not only looking at the proverbial glass and seeing it half full, but then takes it one step further to imagine ways that the other half of the glass can end up full as well. All of the problems we encounter in life are results of our reactions to the events which occur around us--events that we often have no control over, that will happen whether or not we like or dislike the result. If we make a constant commitment to approach life with a positive attitude, then a Problem is no longer a Problem, but a Expotition to a Solution.

Wherever Pooh is, in no matter in what strange place he finds himself, he accepts his nature and embraces his immediate circumstances, thus turning potential Problems into Opportunities. He studies those opportunities, then makes the best of them. Resisting gets you Stuck. And why be Stuck, when if you are Unstuck you can Hum. What you are just depends on how you decide to look at things at any given moment. Fear can paralyze you into staying Stuck. But you always have choice. Therefore, you always have the possibility of Change. And if you choose to make it so, Change can be a Very Good Thing.

If a Bear of Little Brain can figure all this out and make it so much a part of his life--don't you think you can too?

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